It came as no surprise that Tron hit the arcades at the same time as its 1982 film counterpart. This was the first fusion of…
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One of the frustrations of pinball has always been how difficult it is to earn the extra balls necessary to prolong a game. No matter…
Kohner’s game of Trouble was introduced in 1965, and back then, a wooden die came in the box. The players rolled the die and then…
The rock and roll magazine Trouser Press first appeared in 1974 in New York as a mimeographed fanzine by Ira Robbins, Karen Rose and Dave…
The Trouser Suit (or Pant Suit if you’re from the left-hand side of the Atlantic) really took off in 1963 when Cathy McGowan, star of…
Tufty Fluffytail, a childlike red squirrel character was created in 1953 by Elsie Mills at The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. Tufty helped…
American chemist Earl Tupper was creating moulds at a plastics factory in Massachusetts shortly after the Great Depression when he came up with the idea…
The quest for realism in driving games got a boost in Sega’s 1981 simulator, Turbo. Shifting the action into a new perspective, Turbo put players…
This grown-up chocolate bar was “full of eastern promise” and hinted at naughty exoticism.
This weekly comic was published between 9 November 1951 and 1984 originally by the News of the World, then Beaverbrook and finally, Polystyle Publications. It was…
Since television licenses first appeared in the UK, the TV Detector Man has been a ghoulish spectre who can allegedly track down telly-watchers by means…
Although the process of freezing food had been around since the end of the 19th century, by the early 1950s refrigeration technology had advanced far…
On 3 April 1953, a small magazine – about 5 inches by 7½ inches – with Lucy and Desi’s new baby on the cover, appeared…
This television-related comic was designed by City Magazines as a companion to TV Century 21. Published from 14 January 1967 for 88 issues, TV Tornado…
This weekly comic was first published in 1965 as TV Century 21 by City Magazines (and later by IPC) to promote Gerry Anderson properties, taking the Supercar and Fireball XL5…
Twiggy’s success story began in 1965 when Nigel Davies – a jack-of-all-trades who had worked as a bookie’s office boy, amateur boxer, antique salesman, interior…
DC Thomson published this “picture paper specially for little girls” from 27 January 1968 to 1999. The 1,612 issues were produced weekly, supplemented each year…
Of all the fads, foibles and crazes that swept the Sixties (and there were LOTS), few caught on as universally as The Twist. It started…
“Left foot . . . red, right hand . . . yellow”. These familiar words echoed through houses throughout the 60s as children of all…
The Lost Boys (1987) was the film that brought together Corey Feldman and Corey Haim, and gave birth to “The Two Coreys” – a symbiotic,…